Medicine & TechnologyIn order for a celestial body to be a planet, it should become gravitationally dominant with no other celestial body close to its size except for some of its satellites which, unfortunately, Pluto cannot.
Something weird is at work on the cold, dark plains of Pluto, where hundreds of regularly spaced ridges look a bit like an alien thumbprint pressed into extraterrestrial ice. Today, though, researchers report in the journal Science that the strange landscape is actually a dune field crafted from methane "sand."
This year on 6th April NASA chooses twenty-two futuristic concepts under the 2017’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. All these concepts are apart from conventional technology and may revolutionaries the future space exploration
Eleven years ago from today spacecraft called New Horizons blasted off for Pluto. Now, after completing its journey on Pluto it's moving towards the Kuiper Belt Object(KBO) 2014 MU69. In the recent bulletin, NASA confirmed that Has already traveled half way towards the object.
International Astronomical Union(IAU) declared Pluto as a “Dwarf” in the year 2006. , Alan Stern, Principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto proposed IAU to redefine Pluto as a Planet in the Solar system. Alan prepared a new definition of Planet that declares pluto as a planet alone with other 110 Planetary objects.
The photos that were taken by the agency's New Horizons hover during a close flyby last July showcase upclose images of the dwarf planet's bizarre landscape.
NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft is already on target for an historic rendezvous with Pluto in July, but while it travels it continues to snap new images of the little dwarf planet. The new images reveal even more detail about its complex and high contrast surface.
New Horizons is currently closing in on its historic meeting with Pluto, the dwarf planet situated at the very edge of our Solar System, and now a new app will let you follow its progress right on your smartphone or tablet.
The man responsible for the "golden record" on Voyager now wants to beam crowdsourced data to the New Horizons probe to take with it as it leaves the solar system.